They have been researching television violence and how it affects our children's behavior for many years and know that the more violence a child watches the more violent that child reacts. ... Even though we also have to consider that other factors such as the child's environment contribute to its behavior we must not throw away the researchers' findings. ... So programs like today's "Power Rangers", "Beavis and Butthead" are teaching our children to fight and be aggressive, because in the case of the Power Rangers the only option is to fight the so called bad guys. ...

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These two countries alone have lost thousands of lives, many of them including child soldiers. ... For example, if we take a look at World War I, the only reason why it ended was because many of the countries that fought were exhausted and begged their leaders to call for a ceasefire. ... Soon after a group of rebels formed a group called the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD). ... Unfortunately, we cannot say the same for child soldiers. ... In an interview, an organization called War Resistor's International spoke to former child soldiers about their experiences. ...

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Now I would like to call upon your attentions to ideally understand what war can do to children around the world. ... A child who was disabled during war may lose a limb, sight, and cognitive capacity and lose the opportunity of schooling and of a social life. ... Landmine is more likely to kill or seriously injure a child than an adult. ... There is also interruption of population immunization programs by war, which may be responsible for increases in child mortality. ... According to Water.org "every 21 seconds, a child dies from water-related illness" (Making the different 1990-20...

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To drive the devil out from their child, they spank them. ... In this way, children are inflicted pain in response to child's undesirable behavior and or speaking of inappropriate language. ... The mother who hits her child with a belt may be admired as a good parent in one neighborhood; while in another, the mother who slaps her child's face may menace being accounted as an obnoxious parent. ... It also compels Canada to supply for programs of support, prevention, and treatment in cases of hostility and child abuse. With regards to school discipline, article 28 calls on Canada to ma...

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Gun Control The basic premise of the constitution is to allow people to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Someone else cannot take one's right to life. However there are times when people try. When that time comes, the victim must have a way to protect himself. A handgun ca...

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Although crime victim surveys produce more accurate estimates of incidence and prevalence rates than police statistics, and confirm that many offences are not reported to police, they too are acknowledged to underestimate violent crimes of an intimate nature, particularly sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse (Grabosky 1989; National Committee on Violence 1990). ... Child victims There were 2,858 victims of sexual assault under the age of 10 recorded by the police in 1997. ...

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The Handbook of Family Violence identified five major types of family violence and ranked spouse abuse as almost equal in incidence with physical child abuse, which was ranked number one (Gilliland, James 1997). ... In fact, only about 10% of women in these situations have called the police. ...

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, it talks about the negative effects of violent video game play and how long these effects last after the child is done playing the violent video game. ... In the article, M-Rated Video Games and Aggressive or Problem Behavior Among Young Adolescents, it discusses how in today's society video games have become the norm for the average child growing up in America. ...

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By the age of sixteen the typical child has witnessed as estimated 200,000 acts of violence, including 33,000 murders. ... From here, assuming the child has not been shot, he can then become a drug dealer earning some 3,000 dollars per day. ... Their favorite game was called "Doom." ... (Former probation officer from Brooklyn, NY featured in Time Magazine) Parents are definitely the biggest influence on a child since they can control every aspect of their lives, from the TV shows that they watch, to even the friends that they associate with. ...

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Sutherland's famous theory is called the theory of differential association. ... A child who starts acting violently will often do so during periods of unstructured and unsupervised time. ... The possibility of moving an aggressive child can pressure a child to improve. ...

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He also wrote All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence about the child criminal Willie Bosket. ... Butterfield states that he traced the Bosket family back to a county in South Carolina called Edgefield. ... The slaves called this the honor code; this represented the respect and prized personal good somebody can have. ... He would bring about the new generation of trouble making called "The New Negro". ...

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Nevertheless, the adverse effects of video games not only through visual stimuli but also through audio stimuli on individuals' thoughts, individuals obliviously learn to become more aggressive through a process called modeling, and the fact that these negative influence of playing violent video games will have dramatic and long-term effects on individuals when repeatedly exposed strongly suggest stricter law other than rating the game content. ... For example, people who become desensitized with exposure to media violence may be likely to act aggressively through a process called model...

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The National Institute of Justice wrote a report on how family life can have an impact on violence and they found that if a child experiences violence as a young child, this can affect the way their brain develops, which could potentially lead to a violent outburst in later life; 'poor prenatal care, prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol, exposure to high levels of lead in the environment, and early abuse or neglect can lead some children to have more difficulty controlling aggressive impulses' (Steinberg, 2000:34). ... Experiments such as this do not only show that aggression i...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act requir...

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